On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 01:48:35PM +0000, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-02-10 12:17, Reco wrote: > > >No. See SCO vs IBM case. Linux is not Unix, and never has been. > > wasn't it IBM gave Minix away and Torvalds used that as a base ?
Oh, no. Minix is Andrew Tannenbaum's project, has nothing to do with IBM. And it did serve as inspiration for Linus, but not as a code source. Actually Linux went a quite different path (monolithic kernel) than Minix (more or less microkernel) -- Tannenbaum once scalded Linus and said that Linux would never be portable because of that :-) And SCO claimed that IBM had contributed code to Linux which was SCO's (intellectual) property. Or something like that (the claims changed quite a bit during this protracted history) [1] Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_vs_IBM -- tomás
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